Word: truman
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When Ed Harris, with backwards hat and glasses, walked into the room, I instantly thought of his role as Christof in “The Truman Show.” But I quickly shook off that impression. I wasn’t talking to Christof—I was talking to Beethoven. Harris plays the legendary composer in “Copying Beethoven,” a new film about the composer’s waning years of life and music. Last week, at a roundtable discussion with college journalists, Harris discussed his intense commitment to the role, some...
Adapted from George Plimpton’s 1997 novel “Truman Capote” by writer/director Douglas McGrath (“Emma”), “Infamous” covers the same ground as “Capote,” but does so at a fanciful, almost comical pace...
British actor Tobey Jones steps in to play Truman Capote, joined by a frumpified Sandra Bullock as Harper...
...armed with an Oscar and countless film festival awards, Philip Seymour Hoffman certainly seems to have nailed the role of Truman Capote in last year’s aptly titled “Capote.” One year later, another film emerges that chronicles the era in which Capote lived. Despite the period overlap between the two films, “Infamous” should not be missed on account of its contextual similarities to “Capote...
...first portion of the movie, which takes place in Manhattan, focuses on Truman and his high-society friends—Hope Davis (“The Matador”), Sigourney Weaver, and even Gwyneth Paltrow as a lounge singer. McGrath takes us deep within Capote’s upper-class social environment through his rendering of at-once exuberant and breathtaking scenery...